The legacy files in /var/named are actually read by bindconfig and used to
generate the named.conf file. I wasn't actually expecting
the named.conf file, being of the bind 4 generation the last time I had to set
up a DNS server and this completely threw me for a
while until by accident I used bindconfig and it automagically modified the
named.conf file, but such is life. If you just configure
by hand you can remove the legacy files AFAIK.
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- Original Message -
From: Jonathan Lupa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: 14 September 1999 05:01
Subject: simple bind question
I'm in the process of moving my masq. firewall over to Debian
and leaving Slackware altogether, but I'm running into a difference
in the bind setup and I am curious about ramifications that I may
not forsee...
In my old named setup, (I think it was bind 8.1.2) I had a named.conf
which specified zones, each one with a zone file.
In the debian version (files generated by bindsetup or some such), it
has the named.conf file, but then uses these /var/named/boot.zones,
/var/named/boot.options, and a named.boot file, all of which I
suspect are leftovers from bind 4.
They don't have a man entry, the filenames don't show up in a grep of
/usr/doc/named/*, and being a lazy man, I figured Id go strait to
the list.
Now, my first impulse is to just delete them and setup my zonefiles
as I know how. The million dollar question is : In what way is this
going to hose me when I need to update bind (assuming they ever fix
the licence. (: )
Thanks!!
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